Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Champagne-Ardennes

Château fort
08200 Sedan

Sedan Castle, built in the 15th century in the Ardennes, is the largest medieval fortress in Europe (35,000 m2). Located in Sedan on a rocky spur overlooking the Meuse, it combines defensive architecture and princely palace, a witness to Franco-European conflicts until the 19th century.

Chemins de Compostelle - Au bord des voies
51000 Châlons-en-Champagne

The Collège Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, a Gothic jewel of the 12th to 13th centuries in Châlons-en-Champagne (Grand Est), combines Romanesque influences and primitive Gothic elegance. Classified at UNESCO, it was a high Marian pilgrimage site and a Champagne architectural masterpiece.

Ferme fortifiée
08130 Charbogne

The fortified farm of Charbogne, a defensive building of the 16th and 18th centuries, stands in the heart of the Ardennes village. The Quadrilatère, with its corner towers and moat, illustrates Renaissance military rural architecture.

Eglise
10190 Villemaur-sur-Vanne

The church of the Assumption-de-la-Vierge, in Villemaur-sur-Vanne (Aube), is a 13th and 16th century collegiate church, classified as a historical monument in 1972, famous for its carved jube and medieval furniture.

Eglise fortifiée
08250 Saint-Juvin

The church of Saint-Juvin, a 17th-century fortified building in Saint-Juvin (Ardennes), combines military and religious architecture with its turrets and thick walls, reconstructed identically after 1918.

Eglise gothique
10000 Troyes

The Basilica of St. Urbain de Troyes, a 13th century Gothic masterpiece, stands in the city of Troyes in the East, built at the initiative of Pope Urban IV on the location of his home.

Caquetoire
10240 Longsols

The church of Saint-Julien-l'Hospitalier-et-Saint-Blaise, a 16th-century wooden building, stands in Longsols in the Aube, in the heart of the Great East. Its medieval history and remarkable structure make it a unique heritage.

Halle
08220 Saint-Jean-aux-Bois

The hall of Saint-Jean-aux-Bois, built in the 3rd quarter of the 18th century, is one of the last halls preserved in the Ardennes, classified as a historical monument in 1981 in this village of the Grand Est.